I couldn’t decide only one incident.
American Airways 737 aircraft discovered with obvious bullet gap after flight from Miami to Colombia
Floor crew at Jose María Córdova Worldwide Airport in Medellín, Colombia found puncture harm in line with a bullet strike in the fitting aileron of an American Airways Boeing 737 MAX 8 registered within the US as N342SX. The plane had operated flight AA923 from Miami, Florida to Medellín on the night of the twenty second of February. The obvious bullet gap prolonged by means of the aileron with exit harm on the other aspect. Neither crew nor passengers had observed something uncommon in the course of the flight.
The plane was patched in Medellín and flew again to Miami on Monday morning as scheduled for flight AA924. From there, the plane was ferried to Dallas Fort Value for full repairs. Colombian officers imagine that the 737 was struck whereas touchdown in Medellín and are investigating.
Somalian Fokker 50 badly broken after overrunning onto Mogadishu seashore
On the tenth of February 2026, a Fokker 50 registered in Somalia as 6O-YAS, departed Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle Worldwide Airport on the Somali coast, certain for Gaalkacyo. There have been 5 crew and fifty passengers on board.
A StarSky Fokker 50 crashes shortly after departure from Mogadishu Aden Adde Worldwide Airport, Somalia.
In accordance with native stories all passengers have safely evacuated. pic.twitter.com/pYULsbv2Rm
— Breaking Aviation Information & Movies (@aviationbrk) February 10, 2026
Fifteen minutes into the flight, the crew detected a technical drawback and turned again for an emergency touchdown. The Fokker 50 touched down on runway 23 however the flight crew couldn’t cease the plane. The airport, positioned instantly on the coast, presents no actual overrun margin. The Fokker 50 went off the top of the runway and got here to relaxation on a sandy seashore on the fringe of the Indian Ocean.
Pictures taken of the evacuation present a battered turboprop with a damaged proper wing and waves lapping on the fuselage resting within the sand. All passengers and crew had been evacuated with out critical damage. A spokesperson from the airline counseled the pilot’s calm determination making. No data has been launched as to the character of the technical fault. The Somali Civil Aviation Authority has opened an investigation.
One other United Airways Flight Compelled To Divert After Laptop computer Falls Via Crack Into The Cargo Maintain
United Airways flight UA748 departed Dulles Worldwide Airport in Washington for Geneva. The Boeing 767 was cruising at FL330 (~33,000 ft) off of the coast of Maine when the crew requested to divert as a business-class passenger’s laptop computer had slipped by means of a spot between their seat and the sidewall, dropping into an inaccessible void above the cargo maintain.
We’ve a minor scenario right here with a passenger who has someway dropped a laptop computer down the sidewall into the cargo pit of the airplane. We don’t know the standing of it, we are able to’t entry it, we are able to’t see it.
The problem is a lithium battery fireplace danger: if the laptop computer is broken within the fall and undergoes thermal runaway in an inaccessible house, the crew has no solution to battle it.
That is the third time {that a} United 767 diverted as a result of a laptop computer has fallen by means of the cabin ground. The Autopian writes in additional element on the hole within the Polaris enterprise class seats that’s inflicting the issue (second half of the article). This third occasion suggests a design and/or certification challenge that must be resolved.
Two KLM plane collide on the bottom, no accidents reported
Two KLM Boeing 737-800s had an costly encounter at Amsterdam Schiphol on the morning of the twenty first of February. PH-BCL was being pushed again from gate D54 for flight KL1953 to Athens when it struck PH-BGC, which had simply arrived from Birmingham, England as KL1040. It’s unclear to me whether or not it was taxiing in the direction of gate D29 or stationary on the level of affect. AeroTime and NL Occasions say the plane was stationary. Aviation.Direct says it was taxiing to D29. PPRuNe’s ADS-B evaluation suggests it had stopped wanting its parking stand and remained there for about two minutes earlier than the collision. Aviation Security Community’s wikibase entry says it “was taxiing to its parking place.”
Each jets had been taken out of service. The Athens flight departed about 4 hours in a while a substitute plane. NL Occasions stories that the Dutch Security Board (OVV) and Dutch air site visitors management (LVNL) have each opened investigations.
I’ve to say, having two of your individual plane collide with one another at your property hub isn’t an awesome look.
How China is masking drone flights in potential Taiwan rehearsal
Reuters stories that a big Chinese language navy drone is transmitting false transponder indicators whereas overflying the South China Sea. The decision signal, YILO4200, belongs to a long-endurance Chinese language navy drone, however flight monitoring knowledge confirmed that it was transmitting registration numbers belonging to different plane for a minimum of 23 flights since August 2025.
The drone appeared on Flightradar24 variously as a sanctioned Belarusian Rada Airways Il-62 cargo aircraft, a British RAF Storm fighter jet, a North Korean passenger plane, and an nameless Gulfstream enterprise jet. In a single occasion, it switched identities between 4 completely different plane inside 20 minutes; in one other, the actual Belarusian Il-62 was airborne concurrently the drone mimicking it.
And whereas the masking is unlikely to completely deceive air site visitors controllers or military-grade radars, it might sow time-wasting confusion in a battle, conceal delicate surveillance exercise or be used for propaganda or misinformation, the envoys and intelligence analysts stated.
Coast Guard Pilot Flying Kristi Noem Fired Over a Lacking Blanket
AVweb shares stories from the Wall Avenue Journal and the Day by day Mail {that a} U.S. Coast Guard pilot transporting Kristi Noem, the Division of Homeland Safety Secretary, was reportedly fired over forgetting a blanket.
The pilot was informed to take a business flight dwelling, after Noem’s private blanket was not transferred to a substitute plane throughout a maintenance-related aircraft change. The dismissal was reversed when it turned out no different pilot was instantly accessible for the return leg.
El Paso flights canceled after FAA imposes, then lifts, sudden airspace shutdown over drone challenge
On the tenth of February, the FAA abruptly issued a short lived flight restriction shutting down all airspace beneath 18,000 ft inside 10 miles of El Paso Worldwide Airport, initially for 10 days, a scale of closure not seen since September 11, 2001. The short-term flight restriction warned that violating plane could possibly be “intercepted, detained and questioned” and that lethal drive could possibly be used towards any plane posing an imminent safety risk.
The closure was due to a high-energy anti-drone laser deployed close to Fort Bliss. The FAA had beforehand requested a security assembly with the Pentagon earlier than any additional use of the laser system, scheduled for 20 February. Nonetheless, Customs and Border Safety used the anti-drone laser with out coordinating with the FAA, capturing down objects that turned out to be occasion balloons. In the meantime, medical evacuation helicopters needed to divert 45 miles away. The closure was lifted after about eight hours, with conflicting explanations from the White Home and the Pentagon. The FAA left little doubt that they’d closed the airspace exactly as a result of the Pentagon had not supplied the protection knowledge it had been asking for.
Army Occasions additional stories that on the twenty seventh February, the laser system was deployed once more, prompting a second airspace closure.
This time it was utilized by the navy who apparently shot down a Customs and Border Safety drone. Members of Congress described the scenario as “incompetence” and referred to as for unbiased investigations.
I can’t wait to see what March brings.
